#BIPOC

My heart goes out to everyone affected by the @globalnews layoffs, both those who were let go & those who are left. I'm sad & frustrated by the lack of
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Hot take alert! The UCB system is biased. BOOM! Mic drop.Wait, here’s a very long winded explanation why. Please bear with me. Mic pick up. Intelligence tests are used to
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One more time: Being a member of a marginalized ethnic group or religion does not negate your whiteness. Yes—if you are Jewish, Muslim, Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Arab, Persian, Latinx, pick one—you
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I recently attended a @cathyparkhong workshop on documentary poetics, for BIPOC writers, and can’t stop thinking about it. We debated @carolynforche, wrote to @thisbhanu, 200 souls shared wisdom + light.The
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ok so. what the hell. this is absolutely not okay what the actual fuck. /this thread will be in character, but it’s also ooc, because i want to express my
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i think when we overly credit editors for inclusive publication records what we are often really doing is either 1. more a damnation of the industry or publication making that
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"You should sympathize with Trump supporters because now they feel like you did!"What, they're going to see their trans friends lose their human rights? Kicked out of the military?They're going
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Am I the only nigga that associates "people of color" with "colored person?" and I was taught that "colored person" was a slur.so what is the difference?Rhetorical question. There is
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Authors. Are. Human.Be considerate of their sense of being in these conference spaces. Especially BIPOC authors. They don't owe us anything. They do not exist in this space solely for
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A thread on systemic racism within Music Education. Credit: @/throughthestaff on IG(Shared this post on my story & I wanted to share it here as well! 1/3) Now this thread
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On Inauguration Day in 2017, I joined some amazing folks in blockading one of the entrance gates in DC. We wanted to show on day 1 that we would resist
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i’m gonna rant about this because the way a lot of leftists on here have been talking about religion has genuinely been pissing me tf off; your association of christianity
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Im afraid for what will happen after the election. Whether Trump or Biden wins. I have a bad feeling for both. If you arent political. Get political. Educate yourself your
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Schools starting. We don’t just want to speak & represent. Give BIPOC real power and resources for liberation. Consultants, guest speakers, and YouTube clips are not enough. Dismantle the whole
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I was drawn to Obama. His politics. But there was more.I have lived my whole life with a complex hyphenated identity (Iranian-American). For the first time in my life I
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Last night, news broke after a whistleblower exposed that #ICE is forcibly sterilizing women in its camps, many of whom are Indigenous Central & South Americans. This is horrific, but
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